| Broadwell Place Names |
Broadwell, Co. Gloucester, a Post Town in Stow in the Wold: 85 miles from London, 1 1/2 miles northeast by east of Stow in the Wold; population, 296. A Parish in the upper division of the Hundered of Slaughter; living, a Rectory with the Chapel of Aldestrop, in the Archdeaconry of the Diocese of Gloucester, Value in the King's Book, 23 lbs. 11 s. 10 1/2 d.; Church dedicated to St. Paul, Patron, 1829, J.H. Leigh, Esqr.
Broadwell, Co. Oxford, a Post Town in Buford; 72 miles from London, 5 miles south of Buford; population of Parish, 820; population of Hamlet (Broadwell) 226; a Parish or Hamlet in the Hundred Brampton, with a living, a discharged Vicarage, with the Chapels of Holwell & Kemscott, in the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Oxford; value in King's Book, 8 lb. 14 s., 4 1/2 d. Church dedicated to St. Peter & St. Paul; Patron, 1829, E.F. Colston, Esqr.
No record was found in the Index Library of persons named Broadwell. This does seem unusual, unless one considers the possibility of Broadwell being a variation in the spelling of the original name. There are several places noted in England with the name Bradwell.
The village of Dursley, in Gloucestershire, England, nestles amidst beautiful scenery on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment, above the Vale of Berkeley and the River Severn. Gaining borough status in 1471, Dursley was once the market centre for the whole Vale of Berkeley, also having a significant role in the local wool industry. Other landmarks include the Broadwell, a natural spring which rises at the bottom of Silver Street and forms a tributary of the Ewelme, and the Priory, an ancient building at the bottom of Long Street.
Broadwell, a station of Herkimer County, Ohio, 13 miles east by north of Cincinnati, Ohio. (Current maps do not identify a Herkimer County; 13 miles east/north of Cincinnati would place it in either Hamilton, Warren, or Clermont Counties. Current maps do locate a village of Bardwell about 25 miles east/southeast of Cincinnati on Hwy 32. )
Broadwell, a hamlet of Harrison County, Kentucky, five miles from Cynthiana, where a Presbyterian Church is located at "Broadwell Cross Roads". Church services where held in 1849 in "Broadwell's Meeting on the Ruddle Mills Pike, Harrison Co., KY. (This would most likely have been named after Samuel Broadwell, son of Josiah, who was an early settler of Harrison County. Samuel is buried in the "Old Broadwell Cemetery"approximately five miles southeast of Cynthiana).
Broadwell, a village in Athens County, Ohio, in the Wayne National Forest. It is known that Henry Broadwell (grandson of Nathaniel, great-grandson of William III) lived there and was buried in Athens Co. in 1881.
Broadwell Series (a classification of soil), found in Sangamon County, Illinois.
The Broadwell series consists of deep, well drained soils formed in 40 to 60 inches of loess and in the underlying loamy sand or sand on uplands. They are moderately permeable in the upper part and rapidly permeable in the lower part of the solum and in the substratum. Slopes range from 0 to 12 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 52 degrees F, and mean annual precipitation is about 34 inches.
Geographic setting: Broadwell soils are on nearly level to rolling uplands near stream valleys. They formed in 40 to 60 inches of loess and in the underlying eolian loamy sand or sand. Slope gradients range from 0 to 12 percent. Mean annual temperature ranges from 50 to 54 degrees F, and mean annual precipitation ranges from 32 to 36 inches.
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